Erstellt am: 21. 7. 2010 - 10:13 Uhr

Open Mike: Clicks, Cuts and Knitting Needles

Why does everything always have to fit into one neat box? Here's a mash-up of electro and anti-electro, music and anti-music to add some disorder to your night.

Is radio becoming just as boring as all that homogeneous dribble coming out of the TV? Well, maybe we’re making it too easy for you with all this predictable programming – pop music in one neat show, punk and metal on a different show, easy-on-the-ear alternative in yet another.

Declan TM and Steven De Polo

Would some confuse and contrast help stir your creative juices? Imagine: a show that combines the latest in business news and anthems to anarchy: the nastiest of punk and ska. Imagine: another show that serves you the most morbid of Austrian poetry and literature with the kitchiest of bubblegum Bollywood.

Or tomorrow’s show, where the music of blip & bleep worship meets the manifesto of anti-technology. We call it "MASH: Clicks, cuts and knitting needles."

Eva

Madchen Brunner

The Clicks and Cuts

Eva aka Madchen Brunner feeds you the finest of electronic petitfours – glitch, IDM, minimal, chipmusic - culled from her record collection, from the all-knowing, all-giving Internet, and a few obscure music collaborations, such as f.e. Dan Deacon with Hudson Mohawke, or a brand new release from edIT (The Glitch Mob).

The Knitting Needles

Sruthi Pinnamaneni aka the Indian Girl at FM4 with the Name that Nobody can Pronounce helps you get through the noise and asymmetrical beats by taking you to the other the side – the anti-electro zone.

Sruthi

That Indian Girl

No, she won’t be playing a bunch of folksy tunes for all you granola-eating types – that would be too easy. Instead, Sruthi will treat you to a call-in meditation session, the latest research on the scary side affects of playing video games, and yes - the newest trends in knitting.

Hey skeptics, did you know knitting can help keep your brain healthy and strong? It's all that rhythmic and repetitive motion.

Or wait, is it the rhythmic and repetitive motion of electro that's good for the brain?

Stay up with us tonight, midnight through 1am, and maybe you'll find out.

Eva and Sruthi

P.S. The call-in number for the program is 0800 226 996.